Proceedings of an Ifgene workshop on 9 - 11 May 2001
at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland
Edited by David Heaf and Johannes Wirz
Summary Zusammenfassung Résumé
Contents
| Dignity of plants and perception – Christoph Rehmann-Sutter |
| Dignity of living beings and the possibility of a non-egalitarian biocentrism – Klaus Peter Rippe |
| The intrinsic value of animals: its implementation in governmental regulations in the Netherlands and its implication for plants – Henk Verhoog |
| Dignity of Man and Intrinsic Value of the Creature (Würde der Kreatur) – conflicting or interdependent legal concepts in legal reality? – Hanspeter Schmidt |
| Shamans and scientists – Jeremy Narby |
| A Goethean view of plants: unconventional approaches – Jochen Bockemühl |
| Ethical plant breeding techniques from an organic point of view – Edith Lammerts van Bueren |
| Does gene transfer violate the integrity of plants? – Michel Haring: |
| Solutions of agronomic problems based on 'ecological integrity' – Florianne Koechlin |
| A practising horticulturist’s view on the integrity of plants – Christian Hiss |
| The food plant from the processor’s perspective: the example of the cocoa tree – Craig Sams |
| The socio-cultural question: does genetic engineering advance sustainable development? – Miges Baumann |
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Ifgene Public Workshop 2002 -- 18-21 September -- Edinburgh, Scotland
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Workshop programme, abstracts, selected literature and sponsors (PDF)
Papers referred to in the Discussion Document
Nuffield Council on Bioethics Report: Genetically modified crops: the social and ethical issues (PDF)
Novel Foods: Beyond Nuffield -- A Food Ethics Council (UK) report
Beyond Substantial Equivalence: Ethical Equivalence by
Sylvie Pouteau
(Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 13: 273-291, 2000) -- French Version